jacks. when the last time anybody played either of those? we built some courts in central park. only a few tennis courts. few less bike racks put the kid where the bike racks are. are i got to work it out. brian: s completely safe. biden russia s message as the wnba super star brittney griner returns to the u.s. in exchange for arms dealer general jack keane making america look weak. steve: more than 50 public libraries denying kirk cameron story hour slot for new kids many book. he is going to read part of the book and find out how controversial it is. look who else? john stamos coming up in the next hour of fox & friends. it s nice to unwind after a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!
he has been losing a war slowly his population sees there is major, major problems. he has people that surround him you, openly criticizing his judgment about the war. so, this certainly has helped him a little bit with his domestic audience. he still has major, major problems, obviously in ukraine. bria brian house has passed a defense bill $858 million to the pentagon. also rescinding the mandate when it comes to the vaccine. they have already kicked out 8,000 men and women. what s your thought on both these things? well, first of all, the bill is still inadequate. we re talking about an 8% increase in the defense budget. which doesn t allow for inflation. so it means the budget is flat. that s the reality of it. yet, trying to dig ourselves out of a whole in the independent dough pacific region where we are outgunned and outmanned and
lopsided and is always going to be a disappointment to us. despite the fact we get american citizen home. that s the reality of what we re dealing with here. and the trump administration was pretty successful in getting people back. but they didn t use the swap as the basis for all of that. and that s the danger. when you are using that, we re normally going to be frustrated and disappointed by it, as we are with this. brian: vladimir putin needs arms. he is begging iran for drones. is he begging north korea for rockets. now he has his guy, best in the world cargo plane parked somewhere. he gets an asset, a pr asset and physical asset. oh, certainly going to use them. and obviously the guy still has those connections, even though he has been in the jailhouse for years. is he going to take advantage of that look it, putin hasn t had much to cheer about in 10 months.
brian: fox news alert right now. former adviser to russian president vladimir putin saying the deal to swap brittney griner for so-called merchant of death viktor bout was a win for moscow and made america look weak. he writes vladimir putin outplayed biden, we got back our spy it seems and gave away normal girl. here to react to general jack keane four star general retired fox news strategic analyst. is that right? do you think we got played? well, certainly, when you use the major vehicle as the swap, i mean, it s always going to be lopsided. i mean, let s face it. our people are there on phony charges or exaggerated charges, we are going to give up convicted criminals, thugs. killers, and sometimes terrorists. that s that is by definition
independent. and not be, you know, stuck into one party s of following without thinking. you know, removing myself from the partisan structure not only is it true to who i am and how i operate, i also think it will provide a place of belonging for many folks across the state and the country who also are tired of the partisanship. brian: moving herself from the party structure but still caucusing with the party, we watched that together for the first time. what s your take away? well, again, it s a reflection of how far extreme the democrats have become. it s not like kyrsten sinema is voting against chuck schumer s agenda half the time. she voted for both of their big spending billings. their gun control bill. she voted to implement a very radical abortion policy as well. it s just that she won t take certain steps that are too edges stream for most americans like trying to end the practice of